ERP on the Shop Floor is as critical to the viability of the enterprise as any component in the execution of manufacturing. High performing manufacturers have found that full integration of real-time operational data collected from the shop floor to the top floor is key to reducing costs, streamlining operations and improving customer satisfaction. 

Increasing numbers of companies are evaluating a two-tier enterprise resource planning (ERP) strategy; running separate lower-cost regional solutions for small-tomidsize subsidiaries, despite, in many cases, already rolling out a global ERP system. 

This white paper explores the butterfly effect of poor data quality on CRM, ERP, billing, data warehouse, and other enterprise systems. 

Read this paper to learn four solid reasons why putting your warehouse management system in the cloud may make the most sense for your business – and how it can affect your bottom line with a faster return on investment. 

This report will identify nine telltale signs you should consider replacing your warehouse management system (WMS). As a result, you will be better able to analyze the operational factors influenced by your own WMS and gauge how an inflexible or legacy system could be constraining your company’s growth and global reach. 

In this white paper, learn how Sage Software has successfully structured their manufacturing system to deliver useful information to enterprises needing to upgrade from legacy and manual systems. 

As SAP customers plan their BI strategies in the face of support deadlines for BEx tools that are inching closer, many customers are contemplating their next steps with BW. In this e-book, readers will learn the keys to planning a successful SAP data warehousing strategy, and get help deciding what role BW should play in it. 

Matching technology plays an important role in achieving a single view of customers, parts, transactions or almost any type of data. Often used to identify duplicates, matching technology is vital to providing data that is fit-for-use in enterprise applications. This paper outlines the basic theories, strategies, and algorithms of record matching. 

Read this case study to learn how one growing Euopean retailer was able to migrate to an architecture that could support real-time delivery of shop data to the data center for processing and real-time communication of pricing events to its shops using open source integration software. 

For high-tech manufacturers, even a brief delay in design, production, or distribution can severely limit sales and profitability. With so much at risk, speed and accuracy are imperative. Read this white paper to learn what practices, processes and systems will keep your high-tech manufacturing organization on the cutting edge. 

This paper outlines a set of core analytics customized for wholesaler-distributors. 

This case study details how a master data plan allowed DB Schenkey employees to reliably access data from a single, authorised source.